Yehuda Ben-Meir
Yehuda Ben-Meir | |
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![]() Ben-Meir in 1977 | |
Faction represented in the Knesset | |
1971–1984 | National Religious Party |
1984 | Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre |
1984 | National Religious Party |
Personal details | |
Born | New York City, United States | 27 July 1939
Dr. Yehuda Ben-Meir (Hebrew: יהודה בן-מאיר, born 27 July 1939) is an Israeli former academic and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party and Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre between 1971 and 1984.
Biography
[edit]Born Yehuda Rosenberg in New York City in 1939, the son of Shlomo-Yisrael Rosenberg, Ben-Meir studied at the Yishuv HaHadash yeshiva in Tel Aviv, Yeshiva University, and Columbia University, earning a doctorate in psychology. He made aliyah to Israel in 1962, and worked as a lecturer in psychology at Bar-Ilan University until 1968.
One of the leaders of the Gesher youth faction of the National Religious Party (NRP), he was director of the party's youth bureau, a member of its actions committee and directorate (which he also chaired), as well as being a member of the world secretariat of Mizrachi and Hapoel HaMizrachi.
He was on the NRP list for the 1969 elections, but failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 4 April 1971 as a replacement for his deceased father.[1] He was re-elected in 1973, 1977, and 1981. In August 1981, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. In May 1984, he and Zevulun Hammer left the NRP to establish Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre, though both returned to the NRP two weeks later. He lost his seat in the July 1984 elections.
After leaving the Knesset, Ben-Meir became a senior lecturer, and also studied law, later becoming a practising lawyer. In 1988, he left the NRP again, and was amongst the founders of Meimad, a left-wing religious Zionist party.
References
[edit]- ^ Knesset Members in the Seventh Knesset Knesset website
External links
[edit]- Yehuda Ben-Meir on the Knesset website
- 1939 births
- 20th-century American Jews
- Yeshiva University alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- American emigrants to Israel
- Israeli academics
- Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University
- Israeli psychologists
- Israeli lawyers
- Living people
- National Religious Party politicians
- Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre politicians
- Members of the 7th Knesset (1969–1974)
- Members of the 8th Knesset (1974–1977)
- Members of the 9th Knesset (1977–1981)
- Members of the 10th Knesset (1981–1984)
- Deputy ministers of Israel
- 21st-century American Jews
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